In this unit we read a story about a guy who was strapped down to a board with a pendulum swinging across his chest and getting lower withe each swing. The only thing this person had to escape was meat and some rats he does the math and it will take him one minute to escape. The question of our unit was does the protagonist have time to escape before the blade cuts him. We started by swinging smaller pendulums and timing the swings. Then we made the length or the pendulum string longer and longer and started looking into patterns. After that we put in on the graph and fit the curve to make an equation. My equation was incorrect but would still work because I got 68.04 seconds but the real time was 72.17.
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In this unit we watched a quick video from the movie Alice in Wonderland. In this video Alice was stuck in a room with a small door. She discovered when she ate cake she grew and when she drank beverage she shrank. We converted this into math problems by making one ounce of cake base 2 meaning she doubled in height when she ate cake and shrunk to half her size when she drank beverage.
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